Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-08

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The Salt Lake Tribune Of October l
says: A private dispatch WA yesterday
received by a gentleman Of this city from
another gentleman interested in the new
railroad project, which read IS follows:
Los ANGELES, Sept. %.
Incorporation perfect success. People
Of Los Angeles and Pasadena subscribed
money for survey and right of way, and
propose donating depot grounds by sub
scription. They send greeting to Salt
Lake.
This is the way the Californians meet
the proposition of rail connection with
this city. We expected it would be that
way, for what they do over there, they
do calamity, and then, they are shrewd
enough to see that this road will mean
a mighty advance for their city. 1t will,
by its shortened line double or quadruple
their fruit market, and in the way OF
traffic generally-mschinery, bullion and
all kinds Of merchandise-supply a more
important link to them than they have
ever yet furnished q clevis for. There
never before was . railroad projected
that was to start from the city Of the
Saints, run to the city of the Angels,
lay fifty mining districts on the way un.
der tribute, and, altogether, make the
shortest line across the continent. Those
people over there grasp the full signif-
canoe Of the road at q glance. Our peo-
pie do not yet, but they will. We ex.
pect that the farmers of Utah will, year
after next, have to make arrangements
to supply to Southern California as many
potatoes as can grow on 5000 acres OF
ground-that is to say 25, 900 tons. We
doubt if that amount will be sufficient,
for it would be only about four bushels
each, for 200, 900 people. But even half
that amount would give the road 1000
carloads of freight, and add to the ex.
chequer of the farmers here $l5O,OOO.
We expect, too, that by this day two
years hence, there will be O,0O0 men at
work in the mines of Southern and
Eastern Nevada, where there is not one
to-day. That will mean an increase OF
80, 900 people, and they will have every.
thing to buy, for the country in which
they will be operating will be very bar.
rem of everything except minerals. We
expect that with those men at work out
there in the desert, with this city for
their nearest depot, 10000 people will
be added to the population of this city;
and that Ogden and Provo, because OF
their superior facilities for supplying
water power, will feel, together with this
place, a something equivalent to a trans.
6guration. When the gentlemen who
are directly moving in the matter of the
construction of this road return here,
we hope that all who can will strain q
point to take stock in the enterprise,
and that as many courtesies as possible
will be offered to encourage them in their
work. Salt Lake City at present holds
the keys Of the enterprise. 1t is her
last chance to compel the building up
here of a great city. The city will CON.
tinue to slowly expand without the road,
but it will at best be a village growth, a
growth on crumbs; such a growth as
makes the rag-picker's fortune. 1t is in
the hands of this people to make an un.
foldment which will by its very mo.
mentum draw people by the thousands
this way to make homes. Besides being
a great business point, this should like.
wise be a great sanitarium. 1t will need
vast improvements to secure this, but
the people here can, if they will, make
people abroad gladly pay for all
needed improvements.
If the present hopes shall reach frui-
ton; if a railroad can be built from this
city to the seashore, and its management
be dictated from this city, there will
never more, after its completion, be any
trouble about railroad rates. This city
will command the situation. If the
roads from the east or the west shall
ever be disposed to be arbitrary in their
methods or their rates, this road will put
a quietus upon them. If they want to
charge too much upon merchandise
or bullion, or anything else, by this
road the seashore will be reached in
twenty.four hours, and ships will be
waiting there for any desired service.
That fact will control. If run on en-
lightened principles we believe that this
road will demonstrate that the best way,
after all, for a railroad to make money,
is to reduce freights and fares to the
possible paying rates. Of course.
if it falls into utterly mercenary hands
and the cost of construction shall be ad- |
vanced to two or three times the actual
cost, it will then be on a par with other
in the West, and it will become a /
necessity to bleed its patrons to the ut.
most in order to make interest and run. |
ming expenses. But nothing of that
kind will be done if the present pro.
gramme shall be carried out. It will be
perfectly equipped road, and will be
run on the theory that when a train is
between two points it will cost
little more to have it 60 loaded than
half loaded, and that when it is possible,
it is better to accommodate one hundred
men than ten. 1t will not be forgotten,